The Bottineau pioneer., 1887-09-01
i NEW PARTY.
D0inga Of the United Labor Convention Of New
York.

Doinsa Of The United Labor Convention Of New
York.
The New York United Labor Con nvention,
held at Syracuse OF which Henry George
was president, nominated full ticket as
follows: Secretary Of state, Henry George,
New York; controller, Victor A. Wilde,
Kings; state treasurer. B. 81. Cummings,
Montgomery; attorney general. Dennis G.
Fesly Monroe; state engineer and survay.
or, Sylyanus A. Sweet. -. ~
Resolutions were adopted for the organ
isation OF a great national party. Reso.
lutlons were also passed favoring eight
hours work for letter carriers; women
equality; extending theschool age in chill
dren from fourteen to sixteen years; in fav-
or OF free public libraries; state printing
department.; the Australian system OF q
secret ballot; the prohibition OF the en-.
ployment OF armed detectives; denouncing
class legislation and the misrepresentation
OF public funds. % @4
The platform says among other things:
We aim at the abolition OF the system
creatures Tor the use OF Gods gifts to all
and permits monopolizers to deprive labor
OF natural opportunities for employment,
thus filling the land with tramps and pau
pers and bringing about an unnatural
competition which tends to reduce wages
to starvation rates and to make the wealth
producer the industrial slave Of those
abolition OF the system which makes such
benefcent inventions as the railroad and
telegraph q means for the oppression OF
the people and the aggrandizement of an
aristocracy OF wealth and power. We aim
at the abolition OF all laws which give to
any class OF citizens advantages either ju-
dicial, financial, industrial or political
that are not equally shared by all. We
call upon all who would effect tho emanci.
patton OF labor and who would make the
Aonsnt .t.te. Union and it's com
wealths OF really free and independent
citizens, to ignore the monopolists and
join with us In organising great national
party on this broad platform OF natural
rights and equal justice. We do not aim
at securing any forced equality In the dis
tribution of wealth. What we propose is
not the disturbing OF any man in his hold
ing or title, but by abolishing all taxes on
industry and it's products leave to the pro-
ducer the free fruits OF his exertion and by
the taxation OF land values exclusive Of
those values which, arising not from the
exertion Of the individual, but from tho
growth OF society belonging justly to, the
community as whole. This increased tax.
alton Of land not according to it's area but
according to it's value must while relieving
the working farmer and small homestead
owner OF the undue burden now imposed
upon them, make it Improbable to hold
ior speculation, and thus throw open
abundant opportunities for the employ:
ment OF labor and the building up oi
homes, We would further promote the
commonwealth and further secure the
equal rights OF all by placing under public
control such agencies rs are in their na.
ture monopolies. Wefavor such as may
tend to reduce the hours OF labor, to pre-.
vent the employment OF children OF tender
years, to avoid the competition OF convict
sanitary inspection Of tenements, factories
and mines, and put an end to the abuse OF
conspiracy lays.